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Low Announce New Album and Tour, Share Atmospheric Videos for Three New Songs

Double Negative Due Out September 14 via Sub Pop; Watch Videos for “Quorum,” “Dancing and Blood,” and “Fly”

Jun 12, 2018By Christopher RobertsPhotography by Shelly Mosman

Low have announced a new album, Double Negative, and shared videos for three new songs, "Quorum," "Dancing and Blood," and "Fly." Double Negative is due out September 14 via Sub Pop. The three videos were released as one complete 14-minute piece, a triptych, as well as separately. You can experience them both ways below. They are all black & white and atmospheric, with perhaps touches of David Lynch here and there. Also below are the album's tracklist and cover art, as well as the band's upcoming tour dates.

Double Negative is the follow-up to 2015's Ones and Sixes. A press release describes Double Negative as Low's "most brazen, abrasive (and, paradoxically, most empowering) album." Low (Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker, and bassist Steve Garrington) recorded the album at Justin Vernon's April Base studio in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (where they recorded Ones and Sixes) with producer B.J. Burton (Bon Iver, Lizzo, James Blake, and Francis and the Lights). A press release says the band "knew they wanted to go further with Burton and his palette of sounds: they wanted to see what someone who is, as Sparhawk puts it, 'a hip-hop guy' could truly do with their music."

The "Fly" video was directed by Mark Pellington, who directed the films Arlington Road and The Mothman Prophecies, as well as plenty of music videos, including the iconic one for R.E.M.'s "Drive."

Music writer Grayson Currin wrote the band's bio for this album and described the album as such: "Double Negative is, indeed, a record perfectly and painfully suited for our time. Loud and contentious and commanding, Low fights for the world by fighting against it. It begins in pure bedlam, with a beat built from a loop of ruptured noise waging war against the paired voices of Sparhawk and Parker the moment they begin to sing during the massive 'Quorum.' For forty minutes, they indulge the battle, trying to be heard amid the noisy grain, sometimes winning and sometimes being tossed toward oblivion."